Jon Acuff - NY Times Bestselling Author on having goals, ditching regret and tapping into our potential
On the Wind Sailing
Andy Schell
4.8 • 593 Ratings
🗓️ 26 September 2023
⏱️ 93 minutes
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Summary
Jon Acuff is a speaker, entrepreneur, podcast host and a New York Times bestselling author with his books “Do Over” and “Start.” Acuff is also an Inc. Magazine Top 100 Leadership Speaker.
His latest book, "All It takes Is a Goal" releases September 12.
Today on the podcast, Jade McCarthy talks to Jon Acuff about his new book, the importance of having goals, ditching regret and the importance of tapping into our full potential.
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| 0:00.0 | When we sailed in Japan, when we went to Japan, we had a KGB guy on board. |
| 0:04.6 | Oh, what? |
| 0:05.3 | So, dude, but we don't know who because this was one of us. |
| 0:08.8 | Oh. |
| 0:09.5 | So basically, when the races, every single boat, when you went across, you know, like, I mean, KGB would recruit one or two guys. |
| 0:21.3 | Ahoi shipmates. |
| 0:22.2 | Welcome back to On the Wind. |
| 0:23.6 | I'm your host, Andy Schell, in for another quick, impromptu interruption. |
| 0:28.9 | This week's episode is hosted again by Ben Doer, our friend from Sail Bainbridge |
| 0:33.4 | out in, well, outside Seattle. |
| 0:36.1 | And Ben continues with the theme of the race to Alaska hosting |
| 0:40.4 | where he interviewed Nikki about winning the race to Alaska as she was on the team and today's |
| 0:45.4 | interview is with Ev who's one of the owners of the boats that Nikki was on so I'll let Ben |
| 0:51.8 | provide more context to that interview but I am here to talk about a few upcoming 59 North things. I'm going to start recording these intros the day before they go out to try to keep us a little bit more real time. If you're listening to this, the week it comes out. Today it's September 25th. It's Monday. In less than two weeks, I think, something like two weeks. Mea, me and Axel are flying back to |
| 1:13.5 | the U.S. for Boat Show. We've got a bunch of events happening at Boat Show, all of which are on |
| 1:19.2 | the page 59-north.com slash Boat Show. You'll find out where the booth is going to be. We're |
| 1:25.1 | teaming up with the Cannons Company again, Harbor Burned Cannon, so come see us there. |
| 1:29.6 | It's actually the 59 North booth this time, so you can find us a little bit easier. Anyway, all that stuff's on Boat Show. We hope to come, we hope to see you guys at Boat Show, those of you that are in Annapolis are making the trip there. So check that out. We've also still got openings on the Azores to Lagos in Portugal, |
| 1:46.2 | the last offshore passage of the year. So if you want to sail on Falcon in the Atlantic, get on over |
| 1:52.0 | to 59-north.com slash sign up and do it. It's going to be a great trip with Eric, who is our skipper from |
| 1:58.3 | Sweden, and Ben Sufer, who started working with us, I think, |
| 2:03.0 | way back in 2019 or 2018 as an apprentice, and now he's one of our first mates. So check that |
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